# How to gain insight into what management tasks are running?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-gain-insight-into-what-management-tasks-are-running/354067
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 25, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-gain-insight-into-what-management-tasks-are-running/354067 "2024-02-25T19:22:02Z")
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### Author: ![bruce289](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@bruce289](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bruce289)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-gain-insight-into-what-management-tasks-are-running/354067/1 "2024-02-25T19:22:02Z")

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Hey,

We can see that some of the nodes in our cluster have many more completed tasks in the management thread pool than others. Is there anyway to find out what exactly these management tasks are/were? Whenever I run `_cat/tasks`, I never see anything that looks like a management task, only indexing or search related stuff. In fact, that might be a start, is there documentation anywhere about what kinds of tasks get run in the management thread pool?

Thanks 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-gain-insight-into-what-management-tasks-are-running/354067/2 "2024-03-24T19:23:00Z")

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